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Submitted to Contest #168
I was new to town, and she was the first person I saw on the train. She dropped her lip gloss, but I was too distracted on gathering my thoughts and picking up my jaw to help her with it. Her soft brown eyes mesmerized my whole existence, her natural un-contoured nose matched the buttons on my levis button up. Me and her, we just belonged together. It didn’t make sense, but it was the expression I felt over the first person I had seen leading up to a terrible day before that train ride. I sat on a bench after my train ride, thinking about t...
Submitted to Contest #128
Olivia looks forward to tea at Chipped China every Sunday with Sarah and Daniela. Something had Olivia pacing back in forth in her room, chipping her nails away, in her plum silk spaghetti strap that she kept fidgeting on as it fell off her shoulder. She began to question if the lilac plaid skirt would look better than the white snake skin skirt, or if she needed to re-do her nails. Olivia had not yet come to terms about seeing Daniela delete a message thread under the name, “Joseph.” Joseph had been Olivia’s middle school crush, and she tho...
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